1. Process Assessment: the ‘BOOTSTRAP’ approach
Gabriel Slot –
Method Engineering

2. Agenda Why this paper? Author and paper The ‘BOOTSTRAP’ approach
Models
Technique
Result
PDD
Future
Questions

3. Pirates of the Caribbean..?!
‘BOOTSTRAP’...
Not about
Pirates of the Caribbean..?!

4. The author and the paper
Günter Koch
4th June 1947
Germany
Professor at Graz University of Technology
Process assessment: the BOOTSTRAP approach
As of now 28 citations
Elsevier: Information and Software Technology
Volume 35, Issues 6–7, June–July 1993, Pages 387–403

5. The ‘BOOTSTRAP’ approach
Main goal is to provide an advanced process assessment in order to get an organization to another level
to identify process strengths and weaknesses
to support the achievement of the organization’s goals by planning improvement actions
Focus on Software Producing Unit (SPU), small and medium size software companies or software departments within a large organization

6. The ‘BOOTSTRAP’ approach
Define organization
Find its strenght + weaknesses
Make plans to improve strengsths and get rid off weaknesses

7. 5 level Capability maturity model
Models
Curtis’
Rainbow model
ESA
Life-cycle model
SEI
5 level Capability maturity model

8. Curtis’ Rainbow model
(Koch, 1993)

9. ESA Life-cycle model
European Space Agency
(Koch, 1993)

10. SEI 5 Level capability maturity model
(Koch, 1993)

11. Technique: questionnaire
Aspect
Category
Area
Focus
Maturity level
Organization
Business Engineering
Human Resource Management
Infrastructure Management
Methodology
Life Cycle Dependent
System Requirements Analysis
System Architecture Design
Software Requirements Analysis
Software Architecture design
Software Detailed Design
Software Implementation & Testing
Software Integration & Testing
System Integration & Testing
Maintenance
Migration
Retirement
Life Cycle Independent
Management
Project Management
Quality Management
Risk Management
Subcontractor Management
Support
Documentation
configuration Management
Quality Assurance
Verification
Validation
Joint Review
Audit
Problem Resolution
Customer supplier
Acquisition
Customer Need Management
Supply
Software Operation
Customer Support
Process-Related
Process Definition
Process Improvement
Technology
Technology Innovation
Technology Support for Life Cycle Processes
Technology Support for Life Cycle Independent Processes
Tool Integration
Technique: questionnaire

12. Result Priority Action Money Time Executor 1 descriptive action xx,xx
x days
function or department 2 3 4

13. PDD

14. Future of ‘BOOTSTRAP’
Non-profit organization, the BOOTSTRAP Institute, with the main objectives of the continuous development and promotion of BOOTSTRAP
Changed in 2008 to Doug Engelbart Institute – Doug Engelbart was the director of the BOOTSTRAP Institute
BOOTSTRAP 3.0 (Kuvaja, 1999)
To assure conformance with the emerging ISO standard for software process assessment and improvement (SPICE)
To align BOOTSTRAP with ISO "Information Technology - Software Life Cycle Processes"

15. Questions